SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Despite the uproar that the NY Safe Act has caused, just 10 people statewide were charged with having an unregistered assault weapon in the laws' first 14 months, according to state records.

Another 25 people were charged with another new crime under the Safe Act: unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, a misdemeanor.

But the majority of the 2,086 arrests and arraignments related to the Safe Act involve crimes that existed and were elevated when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the act Jan. 15, 2013, according to the data from the Division of Criminal Justice Services.

During the act's first 14 months, 1,899 arrests or arraignments were for criminal possession of a firearm, an E felony. The charge includes having a gun with a shortened barrel or an unregistered pistol. Before the Safe Act, this behavior was a misdemeanor charge called fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, which is still on the books.

People who legally owned a gun classified as an assault weapon before the Safe Act had until April 15 to register it with the state. It is unclear how many gun owners complied with this part of the law; state officials have refused to provide aggregate data showing compliance citing the act's exemption from freedom of information laws.

The stricter gun laws have enraged some gun owners and prompted large protests in Albany and across the state.

Other charges from March 2013 through April 2014 include:

-- 44 people were charged statewide with having more than seven cartridges in a magazine. Only three of these charges came after a ruling in late December by a federal judge in Western New York striking down this part of the law.

-- 35 were charged with criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon, often called a "straw purchase." This is a D felony.

-- 32 were charged with criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds; this crime used to be a misdemeanor.